LYNNÂ —Â The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has appointed Paul Silva, customer service manager for Wayne Alarm Systems, as the Central Station Alarm Association’s voting member to their NFPA 72 Supervising Station Systems Committee.
NFPA 72 is the leading authoritative source of life safety codes recognized around the world. The NFPA develops, publishes and disseminates more than 300 codes and standards, intended to minimize the possibility of fire and other life safety risks. NFPA 72 also guides the installation, testing and maintenance of fire alarm systems, supervising station alarm systems, public emergency alarm reporting systems, fire warning equipment and emergency communications systems.
This NFPA Supervising Station Committee formulates the necessary codes to formalize regulations and laws by states and countries worldwide to minimize the possibility and hazards of fire and other life safety risks.
Silva, with over 31 years of experience at Wayne Alarm Systems, has been designing fire systems for company installers, sales consultants and fire officials, as well as consulting and training those same individuals in best industry practices. He is also a past president of the Massachusetts Systems Contractors Association, active in ESX Electronic Security Association affairs, and is the senior instructor and trainer for Wayne Alarm Systems technical department.
Wayne Alarm Systems is a nationally recognized installing company with a state of the art UL, FM Central Station facility right at the company’s home office in Lynn (www.waynealarm.com).
Wayne Alarm Founder Ralph Wayne Sevinor said, “Paul Silva will be a real asset to the NFPA 72 committee and industry at large bringing a well balanced knowledgeable approach.”
